Ep 209: Hybrid Vigor, ft. Derek Mong, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– When the Earth Flies into the Sun by Derek Mong
– The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
– Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
– The Belle of Amherst by William Luce
– A Quiet Passion ()
– Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright
– Vox by Nicholson Baker
– House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
– Funny, but Serious Too by Michael Dirda
– Poems: North & South; A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop
– Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
– Specimen Days by Walt Whitman
– Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
– Dead Souls by Sam Riviere
– Ep 32: Poets Without Poems, ft. Sam Riviere
– Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
– Practice by Rosalind Brown
– A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) (Is it a coincidence that her yellow coat and red hat match Amanda Gorman’s inauguration ensemble?)
– Lupita Nyong’o, great weirdo actor
– The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
– Ep 126: Sassy Kids, ft. Alexis Sears, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
– The American Poet at the Movies by Laurence Goldstein
– Ep 27: Baker’s Poetry, ft. Alice Allan
– Rhyme and Unreason by David Orr
– Meter in English by David Baker
– Lullaby by W. H. Auden
– Ashes of Life by Edna St. Vincent Millay
– If you stick a stock of liquor by Norman Levy
– The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
– Sonnet 31 by Philip Sidney
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